Camera! Lights! Action! – The Making of Bhowani Junction By: Siraj Khan on May 25, 2021Ladies and Gentlemen, you are in Lahore and it is April 1955. The city is blown away by an extraordinary event and for a few vibrant weeks, residents of this historical city will converge on the railway station to catch a glimpse of one of Hollywood’s most glamorous pair – Ava Gardner and Stewart Granger. […]
Azmaish Episode 1 in Review: Yashma Gill is Back in an Intense Role! By: Web Desk on May 21, 2021The first episode of the much awaited drama serial ‘Azmaish’ finally went on air last night – and let’s just say we might just have a new favorite drama to review. Bringing the age old story of a misunderstood stepchild and the evil overlord sisters who are willing to make life hell for their sweet […]
Pakistani-American director delivers powerful short film, Tikkun Olam By: webdesk on January 25, 2021Have you ever felt that strong sense of guilt when you pass by a homeless person asking you for money? Rushing to your lunch meeting, you simply didn’t have the time to stop and give that person money or even afford them the basic dignity of being addressed. If you carry those feelings of guilt, […]
‘Dar Khuda Se’ is based on women harassment and its consequences By: Mahganj Habib on July 1, 2019‘Dar Khuda Se’ is a newly released Pakistani drama serial. It released on June 18, 2019 and runs every Tuesday at 8pm. The drama is produced by Abdullah Kadwani and Asad Qureshi and is written by Sarwad Nazir and directed by Anjum Shahzad. Meanwhile, this drama has owned millions of hearts due to its astounding […]
‘Noblemen’ — despite competent performances, Kunal Kapoor starrer becomes depressing By: Daily Times Monitor on July 1, 2019When the gentle hero of the film ‘Noblemen’, Shay Sharma, names his injured bird Phoenix, you feel that there could be a deeper significance at play here. Perhaps the young Shay, constantly bullied by his seniors at his hill station boarding school, will be able to rise like a Phoenix. But the film goes into […]
‘Annabelle Comes Home’ — Hello, evil-hellspawn dolly! on June 27, 2019Nestled somewhere in the Evil Doll Hall of Fame between Chuckie and The Twilight Zone’s Talky Tina, the Conjuring franchise’s resident Satanic toy has enough industry juice to have knocked out three spin-off movies – not bad for a scene-stealing porcelain figure originally used as a supernatural conduit by a Manson-lite cult. Just don’t call […]
‘Five Feet Apart’ is a beautiful film on emotional struggles versus reality By: Zarbakht Bilal on June 25, 2019Can you love someone you can never touch? Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient, fighting a war between optimism and fear of losing her loved ones. She is always spreading love and hopes among other patients around her but deep inside, she’s as scared as everybody […]
‘Dark Season 2’ — Netflix’s highly ambitious show flawlessly turns ordinary into outlandish on June 25, 2019I stopped and rewound a few minutes of Dark in season 1, after a corpse of one child was revealed to be the corpse of a kid that went missing 30 years ago. I stopped and rewound again – when an old watchmaker was suddenly disclosed to be the author of a book that was […]
‘Kabir Singh’ — an unapologetic celebration of toxic masculinity on June 25, 2019Exhibit A. There’s a scene in the new Shahid Kapoor starrer Kabir Singh in which a domestic help accidentally breaks a glass while cleaning the protagonist’s house. The next moment he’s chasing her down flights of stairs like a man possessed, capable of anything. This scene is played for laughs. Exhibit B. In another scene […]
‘Riverdale’ embodies the Shakespearean concept of dynamic characters By: Zarbakht Bilal on June 23, 2019There are two types of people in this world, those who tries to suppress the animal inside them and then the ones who let that beast come out. In both cases, what remains constant is the beast. We all have one inside. Riverdale is a town with merry young hearts that find their refuge in […]